two-state solution

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the two-state solution

  1. (geopolitics) A proposed approach to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, by creating two states on the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine.
    Coordinate terms: one-state solution, three-state solution
    • 2001 December 1, Lama Abu-Odeh, “The Case for Binationalism”, in Boston Review‎[1], archived from the original on 19 January 2025:
      The advocates of binationalism typically distinguish it from the more familiar two-state solution, according to which two states, one Israeli and the other Palestinian, are imagined to coexist next to each other.
    • 2026 February 4, Ruth Margalit, “‘We Are Going to Live With Scars’: Yair Golan’s Battle for a Two-State Solution”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      As the leader of a newly formed left-wing party alliance called the Democrats, [Yair] Golan is the only Jewish party leader trying to keep the idea of the two-state solution alive. His support for a future Palestinian state is borne of pure pragmatism, he says […] .
      (Can we archive this URL?)

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